Sydney Scott

Doctoral Student - Joint Marketing and Psychology Degree Program

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Primary Email:
sydscott@sas.upenn.edu
Alternate 1 Email:
sydscott@wharton.upenn.edu
Office Phone:
(215) 898-7300
Office Phone:
(310) 780-1699

office Address:
Department of Psychology
3720 Walnut Street
Solomon Lab Building
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6241

Research Interests: judgment and decision making, morality and consumption, preference for natural products

Overview

Sydney Scott is a fourth-year doctoral student in the joint Ph.D. program between marketing and psychology. She is broadly interested in morality and consumption and judgment and decision making, and her dissertation focuses on preferences for natural products (e.g., organic food, alternative medicines, non-GMO products). Specifically, her dissertation examines (1) what causes the substantial variation in preferences for natural products across situations and domains, and (2) the interplay between moral intuitions and risk-benefit analysis in attitudes towards biotechnology.

Sydney graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology in 2012.

Research

Sydney Scott, Paul Rozin, Deborah Small (2020), Consumers Prefer “Natural” More for Preventatives than for Curatives, Journal of Consumer Research, 47 (), pp. 454-471. Related
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Sydney Scott, Yoel Inbar, Paul Rozin (2016), Evidence for Absolute Moral Opposition to Genetically Modified Food in the United States, Perspectives on Psychological Science.
A.P. McGraw, Derick F. Davis, Sydney Scott, Philip Tetlock (2016), The Price of Not Putting a Price on Love, Judgment and Decision Making.
Jonathan Baron, Sydney Scott, Katrina Fincher, S. E. Metz (2015), Why Does the Cognitive Reflection Test (Sometimes) Predict Utilitarian Moral Judgment (and Other Things)?, Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition.
Paul Rozin, Sydney Scott, Hana F. Zickgraf, Flora Ahn, Hong Jiang (2014), Asymmetrical Social Mach Bands: Exaggeration of Social Identities on the More Esteemed Side of Group Borders, Psychological Science.
Barbara Mellers, Lyle Ungar, Jonathan Baron, Jaime Ramos, Burcu Gurcay, Katrina Fincher, Sydney Scott, Don Moore, Pavel Atanasov, Samuel Swift, Terry Murray, Eric Stone, Philip Tetlock (2014), Psychological Strategies for Winning Geopolitical Forecasting Tournaments, Psychological Science.
Philip Tetlock, S. E. Metz, Sydney Scott, P. Suedfeld (2014), Integrative Complexity Coding Raises Integratively Complex Issues, Political Psychology.
Paul Rozin, Sydney Scott, Megan Dingley, Joanna K. Urbanek, Hong Jiang, Mark Kaltenbach (2011), Nudge to Nobesity I: Minor Changes in Accessibility Decrease Food Intake, Judgment and Decision Making.

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Sydney Scott, Paul Rozin, Deborah Small (2020), Consumers Prefer “Natural” More for Preventatives than for Curatives, Journal of Consumer Research, 47 (), pp. 454-471.

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NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant 2016

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PSYC0001 - Intro to Psychology

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